The Enterprise Architect

Join our team in Technology Strategy for an exciting career opportunity to enable our most strategic clients to realize exceptional business value from technology

Practice: Technology Strategy & Advisory, Capability Network I Areas of Work: Enterprise Architecture & Business Transformation | Level: Sr Manager | Location: Bangalore/Gurugram/Mumbai/Pune/Hyderabad/Kolkata | Years of Exp: 15 to 21

Explore An Exciting Career at Accenture

Do you believe in creating an impact? Are you a problem solver who enjoys working on transformative strategies for global clients? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture?

Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory.

The Practice- A Brief Sketch:

The Technology Strategy & Advisory Practice is a part of Accenture Strategy and focuses on the clients’ most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.

We provide you with a great learning ground, deep-rooted in Business Strategy, where you will get an opportunity to advice and work with our key global clients, driving end-to-end transformative strategic value and business growth.

As a part of this high performing team, you will proactively and holistically help and guide the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities. Your scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability. You focus on development of the business and IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole.

You would be expected to:

• Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape

• Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships

• Adapt to changing business and operating models

• Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes

• Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning

• Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric

• Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services

• Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model

• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking

Scope of Activities:

As an Enterprise Architect, you will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:

Support Formulation of Strategy and Guide Execution –

Work with business and leadership stakeholders to develop strategy

• Lead the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture.

• Provide perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques and supports formulation of business strategy.

• Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models.

Connects Strategy to Execution

• Facilitate business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.

• Translate and guide execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes.

• Construct technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues.

Build and Maintain Relationships –

Build the EA value proposition and structure business engagement

• Build the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.

• Develop a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.

• Determine the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model.

Enable value-based messaging and manage cross-functional relationships

• Provide consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.

• Lead interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.

Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes –

Develop the business architecture

• Position the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensure that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy.

• Work with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.

Bring alignment across business and IT

• Lead analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.

• Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structure and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.

• Work with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes.

• Ensure that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.

Support Solution Design and Delivery –

Support portfolio modernization and develop roadmaps

• Maintain the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.

• Present gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.

• Lead analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.

• Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.

Support solution design and delivery

• Develop and apply minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance.

• Facilitate a collaborative relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.

• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.

• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

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Your experience counts!

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

• 10 or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.

• 10 or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, data and predictive analytics.

• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.

• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.

• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and also different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.

• Awareness of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.

• Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.

• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.

• Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles and processes.

Industry Experience:

• Functional understanding of end-to-end CPG value chain / capabilities

• Experience of working on Digital transformations within CPG industry and related platforms modernization

• Deep experience in at least 2 (or more) capability groups such as Consumer (Marketing), Customer (Sales), Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Development, Distribution etc.

• Strong experience architecting (preferably including solution / technical architecture) for CPG clients

• Hands on experience in at least 1-2 key platforms (preferably) e.g. SAP S4, MS Dynamics, Kinaxis, BlueYonder, Siemen Teamcenter, Shopify etc. in the context of CPG industry

Competencies:

• Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.

• Balances the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.

• Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.

• Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.

• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization’s digital business strategies.

• Understands and speaks the language of the business. Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Characteristics:

• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.

• Comfortable, experienced and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.

• Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.

• Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking.

• Vendor- and technology-neutral — more interested in achieving targeted business outcomes than in personal preferences, or in vested personal preferences of other business and IT leaders.

• Composed in the face of opposition to architectural principles, governance and standards.

• Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making

What’s in the for you?

• An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients

• Potential to Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.

• Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.

• Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities

• Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

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